Balancing Blogging, Work, and Life

Blogging takes a lot of work, and often, at the beginning, it comes with very little reward. Often lately, I’ve gotten frustrated with just how much work I put into my blog, something that for the time being (until I put more effort into making money into it) has been a lot of effort for […]

Being a Blog Editor

Unfortunately, I feel as if four years of journalism classes did very little for me as an editor. Although I took one class entitled “Magazine Editing,” the class was taught by an adjunct professor who wasn’t quite prepared to teach the class and didn’t thoroughly plan out what we’d be learning. Instead we spent a […]

Entrepreneurial Writers: The Importance of an Editorial Calendar

For the longest time, I had been winging it while blogging–posting when I felt like it and coming up with ideas to post when I thought about it. However, this led to posts being published at random times of day (although occasionally I would schedule posts for the next day or write a few at […]

Metrics to Measure Your Business Website

Every business today should have a website. Whether you run a restaurant, retail store, or service business, you should have a modern, functioning website. Here are some metrics to track to help you know if your website is making it to customer eyes and if it is meeting customer needs.   Unique Visitors Unique visitor […]

How to Run A Blogger Link-Up

More and more, I see my fellow bloggers running link-ups, or posts on a predetermined topic that encourage their fellow bloggers to write posts on similar topics and post a link to it on the original blog. For me, it’s been a great way to engage in the blogging community as well as find out blog […]